An applicant hopeful for one of Broomfield’s three lottery-based marijuana licenses filed a lawsuit Monday against the Broomfield city and county clerk and 16 other applicants after Broomfield declined to disqualify the entities which submitted multiple applications.
Centroid Holdings, Inc., which operates as Terrapin Care Station and submitted an application for one of Broomfield’s licenses, filed the lawsuit “to protect the citizens of Broomfield from a handful of entities failing to play by the rules,” Terrapin Communications Director Peter Marcus said.
Representatives for Terrapin on Sept. 14 sent a letter to Broomfield City and County Attorney Nancy Rodgers and City and County Clerk Erika Delaney Lew outlining how “Ineligible Applicants were breaking the law, attempting to undermine the fairness of proceedings, and depriving Plaintiff of a fair opportunity to receive a license,” the suit reads. The company’s lawyers wrote they expect Broomfield “will promptly address the issues … and disqualify the offending entities from the process.
“We intend to take every step necessary to protect our client form the irreparable harm that it would suffer if Broomfield does not act immediately,” the letter continues.
However, among the 26 applications, there are multiple crossovers between company names, applicant surnames, proposed locations and business plans, records show.
The applicants Yuma BRMT LLC, Yuma BRKM LLC, Yuma BRIT LLC and Yuma BRAT LLC each do not have a registered trade name, though the four applications list the same proposed business location of 1480 West First Ave. Three of the four registered agents listed in connection to the Yuma applications share the same last name, records show. The four applications also include the same plans for various aspects of the business and also attached the same documents and answers for seven of the application’s questions, the lawsuit states.
There are five applicants that list the registered trade name as IgadI, a cannabis company headquartered in Tabernash with seven locations across the state. While the five applications have the same registered trade name, they each have varying names of the business applicant listed, such as PCA, Ltd. and JPO, Ltd. The five applications each have the same mailing address and the same primary contact person listed, records show. The lawsuit alleges the five applications propose the same owners, lease and floor plan, and use the same language in their cover letters and responses to plans for the business.
Applicants Herbert Bruce Wetzel, Nathan Wetzel, Mark Busch, Mike Weinberger and Joshua Kenneth Davis all submitted the same answers to at least 10 of the questions and they all provide the same plans for different aspects of the business, the lawsuit states. Additionally, four of the five individuals use the email domain name “unityrd.com,” and four of the five disclose an association with Unity Road in the cover letter.
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